April 11, 2022 2:43 pm
Such blood tests, called liquid biopsies, are already used in patients with cancer to tailor their treatment and check to see if tumours come back
March 01, 2022 4:21 pm
According to experts, several fatal blood diseases including blood cancer and disorders like thalassemia, leukemia, aplastic anaemia can be cured by transfusing blood stem cells derived from a healthy volunteer donor (HLA matched related/unrelated).
April 01, 2021 1:27 pm
Also known as Kahler's disease, multiple myeloma starts in the bone marrow when plasma cells (a type of blood cell) begin to grow uncontrollably
December 25, 2020 2:18 pm
A new pharmacological strategy to preferentially target and eliminate leukemia cells with TET2 mutations was carried out by Jaroslaw Maciejewski and Babal Kant Jha from the Cleveland Clinic Department of Translational Hematology & Oncology Research.
September 14, 2020 12:30 pm
Blood cancer accounts for eight per cent of all new cases of cancer diagnosed in India. Of all types of blood cancers, the three most common types that affect the Indian population are lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma
July 05, 2020 4:02 pm
The procedures may seem difficult for people mainly due to the fear of treatment, the financial burden, access to the latest diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, etc.
September 23, 2019 9:55 am
Rose, a symbol of concern and tenderness is offered to cancers patients to provide them energy as they face the disease and its consequences.
September 18, 2019 12:50 pm
According to a report by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, India has the third-highest number of haematological cancers, commonly called blood cancer.
February 11, 2015 2:42 pm
Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 9-year-old needs Rs 50 lakh for a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
October 11, 2013 1:29 am
Kapil Deb Roy,a native of Bangladesh,was first admitted to the hospital in September.